Accountability Makes You Better
Maxwell Leadership Podcast
John Maxwell
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If you want to improve your life, you have to be accountable to somebody. This week, John Maxwell is sharing a lesson on the importance of accountability — because it’s the key to improvement!
After his lesson, Mark Cole and Traci Morrow sit down to have a conversation on accountability and what John has shared, as well as offer you practical ways to apply it to your personal life and leadership.
Key takeaways:
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Accountability provides the bridge to get you from good intentions to actual accomplishments.
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When accountability makes us better, everything else gets better.
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People that are accountable have a real passion to develop and grow themselves.
Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Accountability Makes You Better Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John’s teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Accountable and clicking “Download the Bonus Resource.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the Maxwell Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:10.7 | This podcast is committed to adding value to you so you'll multiply value to others. |
| 0:16.8 | My name is Mark Cole, and today I'm joined by Tracy Morrow. |
| 0:20.7 | As John really teaches us this right here, every person is undisciplined in some area of their life. |
| 0:29.2 | Did you catch that? |
| 0:30.4 | I'm not talking about your podcast neighbor. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm talking about you. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm talking about me. |
| 0:35.5 | Every one of us have an area that we're undisciplined. |
| 0:39.0 | That's why John's lesson today is so important, |
| 0:41.7 | because accountability makes you better. |
| 0:45.5 | In fact, the area of undisciplined behavior |
| 0:49.5 | or undisciplined thinking or undisciplined attitude |
| 0:53.2 | in your life is the very area that we want to speak |
| 0:57.6 | into today to make you better because that's what accountability will do. John's going to teach the |
| 1:04.1 | lesson. Tracy and I will come back and we will give you some thoughts, some application that will |
| 1:09.0 | make you better in your life and your leadership. |
| 1:12.7 | If you would like to download the free bonus resource for this episode or even watch this |
| 1:18.3 | episode on YouTube, you can go to Maxwellpodcast.com forward slash accountable. |
| 1:25.6 | Grab a pen, think of some area in your life that you need accountability, |
| 1:31.0 | and listen in as John Maxwell teaches this lesson. |
| 1:40.1 | If you want to improve your life, you have to be accountable to somebody. |
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